Item Description

USA Coin Book Item ID Number:

96729

Coin Condition:

Extra Fine-40

The only softness you see in the strike on this 25-D is on the leaves of the right wheat stalk. Everything else is pretty sharp which is rare according to David W. Lange who says that 25-D along with 25-S are among the worst struck dates in the entire series. He further adds on pg. 146 of The Complete Guide To Lincoln Cents: "It's difficult to believe that the dies for the 1925-D cents were ever new . . . Gross distortion of the design elements (particularly toward the peripheries) is the norm for these coins. It's quite possible that the Philadelphia Mint was not properly hardening the dies that it produced during this period. This would have led to premature erosion." (Stock #01c1925340 NLMPAP NLKTCPLT)